hamster

Experimenting with Clojure’s PersistentHashMap in JRuby

Over the last few months, I have written two blog posts that mention using Hamster (Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection) classes in JRuby: Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster and Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors. The latter post was commented on by Mike Busch he mentioned his evaluation of Hamster and comparing it to […]

Preventing JRuby Concurrency Errors with Hamster

I was recently working on a small proof-of-concept application with a back-end server written in JRuby. In this proof-of-concept, multiple clients connect to the server to poll for status changes and to request actions be performed as the result of user interactions. The quickest way to keep the server responsive was to just fire up […]